Eurasia

State Department spokesperson says Biden Administration ‘beyond fed up’ with Houthi attacks. Six months have gone by since the arrival of the US administration under President Joe Biden, which made ending the Yemen war a top priority. Upon his first weeks in office, Biden took critical decisions concerning Yemen in …

The Egyptian state and its institutions have been waging a fierce campaign against the preachers of Egypt’s Salafi movement over ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian government and pro-state media have launched campaigns against well-known Salafi sheikhs. Meanwhile, a series of decisions banning them from preaching at mosques have …

Turkey’s unremitting assault against the PKK is destabilizing Iraqi Kurdistan, weakening the rebels on the one hand while bolstering support for them among disaffected locals on the other. On Nov. 16, 2013, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan presided over a mass wedding in the Kurds’ informal capital, Diyarbakir, amid piercing …

King Abdullah will visit Washington for the first time in two years and is to meet with US President Joe Biden on July 19. US President Joe Biden will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on July 19 as the king faces increasing domestic pressures at home. …

Един успешен лозунг може да свърши по-бързо и повече работа от хиляди речи. Преди близо година президентът Румен Радев каза “Мутри, вън!”. Тогава мутрите се чувстваха достатъчно силни, за да извършат назидателна акция в президентството, защото владееха трите власти – законодателна, изпълнителна и съдебна. Бонус им беше и “четвъртата власт” …

Introduction On July 7, 2021 Iran hosted talks between the Afghan Government and Taliban (the Taliban delegation was led by Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai). The same day, the Taliban attacked the Badghis provincial capital Qalat-i-Naw. Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif emphatically stated that the Afghan people should decide their own …

Eine unabhängige Zentralbank darf sich nicht anmaßen, Politik in Feldern zu betreiben, die zum Terrain gewählter Politiker gehören. Mit ihrer neuen Strategie begibt sich die EZB in Gefahr, ihr Mandat zu überdehnen. Die Europäische Zentralbank hat ein seit ihrer Gründung unverändertes Mandat, das als vorrangiges Ziel die Sicherung der Preisstabilität …

The COVID-19 pandemic is still surging in many parts of the world, due primarily to slow vaccination rates and the spread of virulent variants. Espionage, particularly human intelligence (HUMINT), has been forced to adapt to a host of significant changes induced by the pandemic.

Police investigating whether the terror group played role in thwarted bid to bring 43 guns and ammunition worth around $800,000 over Israel’s northern border Israeli security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle dozens of weapons from Lebanon into northern Israel overnight Friday, with police and the Israel Defense Forces announcing …

The two-decade war in Afghanistan has given U.S. spies a perch for keeping tabs on terrorist groups that might once again use the beleaguered nation to plan attacks against the U.S. homeland. But that will end soon. The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is leaving intelligence agencies scrambling for …